News

March 03, 2009 17:00

• Ingushetia: ex-head of Ali-Yurt village kidnapped and then found dead

  The body of Magomed Albogachiev, former head of Ali-Yurt village, Ingushetia, kidnapped at night on March 3 in Nazran District, was found today in the morning in the highway Ali-Yurt - Surkhakhi. Now, the culprits who had kidnapped Albogachiev are searched.

March 03, 2009 15:00

• "Reporters without Borders" call on Azerbaijani authorities to find journalist Guseinov's killers

  The international journalists' organization "Reporters without Borders" (RwB) has made a statement in the context of the fourth anniversary from the date of murder of Elmar Guseinov. The document notes that during this whole time the killers of the well-known Azerbaijani journalist were not found, while the independent press is still persecuted in the country.

March 03, 2009 13:00

• Beslan to set up a school of cultural-aesthetic education

  Today, Anastasiya Volochkova, a famous Russian ballerina, is coming to North Ossetia. She plans to hold negotiations on setting up a programme under her patronage in the Republic aimed at revealing and developing talents in children.

March 03, 2009 11:10

• In Chechnya, boys born at night on March 9 to get 50,000 roubles

  The boys born in Chechnya on the birthday of Prophet Mohammed will get 50,000 roubles each, President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said in a press conference today.

March 03, 2009 10:00

• "Armavia": flight "Tbilisi-Yerevan-Moscow" is demanded

  So far, the Armenian airline named "Armavia" does not possess the final information as to the demand for the air flight "Tbilisi-Yerevan-Moscow" started since March 1, however, it believes that the route will be efficient.

March 03, 2009 08:38

• In South Ossetia, issuance of Russian passports suspended

  Issuance of Russian passports to residents of South Ossetia has been temporarily suspended. This was stated by Alan Pliev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic.

March 03, 2009 07:00

• Military experts: "arms scandal" between Azerbaijan and Russia is beneficial for EU

  Experts of the Russian Centre of Military Forecasting believe that the "arms scandal" - the charge moved by Azerbaijan against Russia of arms deliveries to Armenia - is beneficial for the European Union (EU) in view of supporting NATO and has to do with the process of settlement of the Karabakh problem.

March 02, 2009 21:00

• Azerbaijani public mark four years after Guseinov's murder

  Today in Baku, a group of journalists, political and public figures and members of the diplomatic corps have visited the grave of Elmar Guseinov, editor-in-chief of the "Monitor" magazine, on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of his murder.

March 02, 2009 20:00

• People queue for USD at currency exchange booths in Yerevan

  In several recent days the population of Armenia has sharply increased their demand for US dollars, which is indicated by queues at currency exchange booths in Yerevan. However, the stock of dollars that can be bought there has shrunk radically.

March 02, 2009 19:00

• Russia to restart issuing visas to Georgian citizens

  From March 4, Russia plans to restart issuing visas to citizens of Georgia, although in incomplete volume. Swiss diplomats will act as intermediaries.

March 02, 2009 18:00

• Residents lodge a complaint to the SC against new Sochi port

  Today, a suit was lodged to the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia against construction of the second cargo port in the Imereti Valley in Sochi. Representatives of the public assert that there is no need for the second cargo port in Sochi, as it was officially stated that Sochi needs much less cargoes for Olympic construction than declared earlier.

March 02, 2009 15:14

• Musaev: complaint of the General Prosecutor's Office cannot cancel the verdict on Ploitkovskaya's case

  The cassation complaint lodged by the Russian General Prosecutor's Office on cancellation of the "not guilty" verdict passed on the murder case of Anna Ploitkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", has today become available to the participants of the process. Murad Musaev, advocate of one of the acquitted persons, saw no grounds for cancelling the verdict in the complaint.

March 02, 2009 14:00

• Kardanov's mother asserts that her son could not take part in attack on Nalchik

  Mother of Murat Kardanov, who was first registered as a perished attacker on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, and then detained on December 30, 2008, in Zolukokoazhe village, asserts that her son could not be among the participants of the attack, since he was very sick and hid at home.

March 02, 2009 13:47

• Head of Azerbaijani MIA recalls his claim against Leila Yunus

  Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan Ramil Usubov has recalled his claim against Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD).

March 02, 2009 08:00

• In Sochi, 144 families are rejected their housing rights

  Residents of a 144-apartment block in Sochi can found themselves in the street overnight. While the authorities refuse registering their rights for real estate, referring to the fact that the house has not been commissioned, the apartments are registered to other people.

March 02, 2009 07:00

• Ingushetia: grenade thrown into the yard of Public Prosecutor's assistant

  In Ekazhevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons threw a grenade into the yard of the household belonging to Hussein Sakalov, assistant pf the Public Prosecutor of the Republic.

March 01, 2009 23:11

• Dozens of thousands came to opposition rally in Armenia

  Today, the capital of Armenia hosted a rally of the opposition dated to the first anniversary of the tragic events on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan, when at dispersal of a peaceful demonstration 10 persons were lost. By different estimates, the rally brought together from 50 to 60 thousand persons.

February 28, 2009 21:00

• Editor-in-Chief of "Chernovik": Aliev detained in Dagestan was tortured

  An advocate is still not admitted to Ahmed Aliev, detained on February 21 in the course of a special operation conducted in the capital of Dagestan. Nadira Isaeva, editor-in-chief of the weekly named "Chernovik" (Blueprint), asserts that it is done deliberately, to hide the fact of torturing him.

February 28, 2009 20:10

• Mayor of Kalmykia's capital is left at large on bail

  The Elista City Court has rejected the petition of the inquiry to extend the custody of Radiy Burulov, Mayor of the capital of Kalmykia, and left him at large on bail.

February 28, 2009 20:00

• North Ossetia: Kokoity to visit refugees from South Ossetia

  On March 5, President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity will come to North Ossetia to meet the refugees from South Ossetia who live there as victims of the warfare in August 2008, and of those who suffered in the events of 1992.